Brand Marketing & Experience Consultant

We’re looking for a Brand Marketing and Experience Consultant to join our Group Brand and Marketing team. If you’re looking for a new challenge with an organisation committed to putting customers first, aiming high and working together, you’ll thrive here.

Job Type: Secondment - 23 months

Location: Hybrid role based in Edinburgh

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date: 25/09/2026

Salary and benefits: £25,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 8-16% private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Meet the team: Martin Fearn will be hosting a virtual open forum on Thursday 17th September at 2pm if you would like to hear more about this opportunity.

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The role

This role will work effectively across Group Brand & Marketing and Corporate Affairs & Brand contributing to an increasingly integrated operating model with shared priorities, connected workflows and clear interfaces. To support the Senior Social Media Lead in the delivery of a market leading brand and content experience by assisting with the planning, creation, analysis and coordination of social media and marketing content across Standard Life and wider Group initiatives. The role provides hands on exposure to content production, channel management, event support and customer experience delivery, while developing skills in brand governance and performance analysis. Working collaboratively across the Brand Marketing & Experience team, the role helps ensure consistent, engaging and compliant brand activity, while offering a strong development foundation for a future career in marketing and content experience.

As part of the role, you will follow brand, compliance and quality standards. You will be confident applying brand governance and regulatory requirements to ensure all outputs align with Group standards and support consistent, high quality brand execution.

You will also be supported in obtaining a formal qualification in Marketing.

What are we looking for?

• Basic understanding of marketing, content or social media principles. Demonstrates awareness of how brand, content, social media and marketing activities work together across a wider marketing system.
• Good communication and collaboration skills. Comfortable working with colleagues across Group Brand & Marketing, Channel Marketing and other internal teams to support cross functional delivery.
• Comfortable using or exploring AI-enabled tools and a willingness to learn to enhance content planning, social analytics and productivity, ensuring outputs meet brand, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Curiosity, initiative and a growth mindset. Shows enthusiasm for developing technical, creative and professional skills through hands on work, feedback, rotational learning and exposure to content creation, social media, digital experiences and event delivery.
• A degree‑level qualification (or equivalent) in Brand, Marketing or a related discipline is preferable.
• Some experience of working in a professional or office environment (for example through a placement, internship or part‑time role) would be beneficial
• Some experience of using MS Office applications such as Word, Powerpoint and Excel to create reports and presentations

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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